The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 567 Dongsha Pirates
The Dongsha Islands are located two to three hundred kilometers east of Guangnan East Road, and just in the middle of the Liuqiu and Leizhou waterways.

In the past, the pirates who roamed the waters of Leizhou and made troubles have been scattered since the defeat of Qiongzhou and the death of Murong Chuan. Some of them fled to the Xisha Islands south of Qiongzhou, or sneaked back to the land to hide their names, while the vast majority of them, It is to go to the Dongsha Islands, which can still harm Guangnan East Road, and continue to be a pirate.

So now the pirates of the Dongsha Islands can be roughly divided into two distinct forces, that is, the local pirates and the Leizhou pirates.

Local pirates occupy the main island of the Dongsha Islands, which is the crescent-shaped island.The Leizhou Pirates occupy two irregular oval-shaped islands to the east.

The two groups of people dislike each other, but no one can do anything about it.The local pirates are familiar with the terrain, but because Leizhou has no way out, it is even more rare that Tuanze hugged his arms and went out unanimously.

Every day, not to mention the people who died on merchant ships and passenger ships.Even if there are two gangs of pirates, there must be at least a dozen corpses sank to the island to feed the fish.

After watching Zhao Dongting's five people get into the cargo hold, Old Wutou ran to the deck again holding the simple knife.

Dozens of small boats were getting closer and closer to their ship, suddenly jumping out from invisible places in the fog, and now they were less than 200 meters away from the ship with the flag of the Sea Dragon Gang.

All the thugs had serious expressions on their faces, and some even had their legs trembling involuntarily.

"His grandma's!"

Old Wu Tou suddenly spit angrily again, "It's from Nanhuan Island! Brothers, polish up all the tricks for me, don't be a pirate's arrow."

The thugs swallowed their saliva one by one.

Among the Dongsha Islands, the island occupied by local pirates is called Crescent Island, and the other two islands occupied by Leizhou pirates are North Ring Island and South Ring Island.

All veterans who often travel to Leizhou and Liuqiu waterways know that the pirates on South Ring Island are the most difficult to deal with.The appetite is the biggest, and the means are the most brutal.

This is because the South Ring Island has the smallest territory, and the pirates on the island are also the least powerful.They can't compete with the people of Crescent Island and Beihuan Island in the Fujian waters, so they can only kill the passing merchant ships.The unwritten rule of Crescent Moon Island and Beihuan Island is to charge [-]% of the goods, but this South Ring Island requires as much as [-]%.

The price is clearly marked, and the pirate ship will also carry palm eyes with eyes that are better than treasure appraisers.The value of the goods on board can be calculated at a glance, and it cannot be avoided.

Old Wu's eyes were very poisonous, and he observed from the subtleties that it was a boat from Nanhuan Island. After explaining to his brothers, he hurriedly ran towards the cabin again.

Opening the cabin, he threw a piece of clothes down, "Mr. Zhao, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to change into our clothes. The people who came from Nanhuan Island are hard to deal with."

"it is good."

Zhao Dongting's muffled answer came from inside.

Old Wutou heaved a sigh of relief, thankful that Zhao Dongting was not the kind of son who was not easy to talk to, so he hurried outside again.

With his eyesight, it can be seen that Zhao Dongting and the other five are not ordinary people.Although I can't see the specific depth, I can also feel that I am definitely far from being an opponent.

Otherwise, how could he be so polite to Zhao Dongting just because Zhao Dongting is rich?

If you have money but no strength, if you end up on the boat, you will only be slaughtered.

Money touches people's hearts and reaches the sea.The black boat may not only be in the business of sending people to Liuqiu, maybe it will be sent to the underworld.

In the cargo hold, a little boy named "Little Bean Sprout" shrank timidly into his mother's arms. "Mother, are the pirates here?"

Everyone in Leizhou knows about pirates. When pirates are prevalent, these two words can stop children from crying.Just say you cry again, and let the pirates catch you, which is much more useful than the current parents who use the word "police" to bluff people.

The light in the cargo hold was dim, and only two very thin rays of sunlight shone in.Wherever it is illuminated, dust can be seen filling the air.

There is a faint fishy smell that lingers all the time.

The lady who was hugging the little boy didn't answer, but just patted the little bean sprouts on the head, and turned her head away in embarrassment.

In addition, there is a little lady, and a little girl in the cardamom age.

The little girl did not forget to hum softly, but it was not obvious.

This is because Zhao Dongting changed his clothes directly in the cabin.In this day and age, such a move is undoubtedly very rude.

"Feel sorry."

Zhao Dongting heard the little girl's cold snort, and said with a light smile, "There are pirates outside, it's inconvenient for me to go out, I have no choice but to ask for your forgiveness."

The two little ladies did not speak.

The little girl snorted again, "I'm really shameless."

"Peach!"

A man sitting next to her who couldn't see his face said, "Don't be rude to the young master."

The girl who was called Taoer hummed twice again and stopped talking.

Although the man is from the countryside, he knows how to be polite, and he bowed his hands to Zhao Dongting: "My sister is used to being self-willed at home, please forgive me, sir."

Zhao Dongting had a good impression of this man, put on the coarse cloth clothes thrown down by Old Wu, and asked casually: "Brother's accent should be a serious Leizhou native, and the people's livelihood in Leizhou should be good now, what do you think?" Do you want to take the whole family to Liuqiu?"

He had already seen that neither of these two families rented a black boat to go to Liuqiu to run a business.

First of all, they don't even have enough money to rent a boat, let alone the capital.

Secondly, doing business really shouldn't be a drag on the family.

The man's voice was desolate, "If he could stay in Leizhou, who would think that Liuqiu would become a rootless Hakka? He doesn't even know if he can live, but staying in Leizhou would make life worse than death."

"Why?"

Zhao Dongting asked curiously.

The man is quite talkative, and he doesn't have any defensive attitude towards Zhao Dongting.It's probably like those people who have nothing to do but don't care if they are not remembered by thieves.

There are some things that are pressed in my heart and I can't vomit them all, so I confide them all to Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting didn't know until this time that the two small families were still from the same village.Living not far away, getting to know each other, and going to Liuqiu together is also intentional.

Both families are named Zhang.

Speaking of this man is the brother of the little girl named Taoer, and the other little lady in their family is the man's wife.There is also a young man who is the younger brother of the man.

The parents at home have passed away, so they live in one family.

As for the Ling family, there was an old woman, a couple and little bean sprouts.

They all fled Leizhou with their families and wanted to go to Liuqiu to find a way out.

After Zhao Dongting listened to it, he didn't think much about how pitiful the two families were. Instead, he was instantly enraged, and his chest was filled with raging anger.

The nobles of Leizhou actually have centipedes that are dead but not stiff.

That's how it goes.

These two families were originally tenant tenants in noble families, and later the imperial court divided the land, and they also shared the land that originally belonged to that noble family.Even the aristocrats pretended to lend them money and food to let them pass the hurdle before the autumn harvest.But I didn't think it was a trap at all.

Once I had a field, I just thought that life would get better and better, and the autumn harvest was just around the corner, when the evil servants of the nobles came to the door.

The small amount of money originally borrowed was rolled over to the point where they couldn't afford to pay even if they sold out all the food with the extremely astonishing method of revolving interest.

Go to report to the official, and there will be that nobleman watching at the gate of the government office.If you don't wait to get closer, you will be beaten home with sticks, and you will have to suffer some hardships.

In this way, the entire Zhang Family Village became slaves of the nobility again, just like when the land was not divided before, or even worse.

After two years of suffering, the debts became more and more, and there was no hope of repaying them in the rest of my life.The rest of the families in Zhangjia Village have accepted their fate, but they will continue to be slaves to the nobleman in this life, but the two of them have to leave their homes.Because the young ladies in their family are quite beautiful, the noble has already released a word to drag these two fair and clean young ladies to pay off the debt.

If they were really arrested, how would the two ladies survive when they came out of the noble mansion?
So the two men went together like this, left home in the dark, and took the whole family to Leizhou port.

Fortunately, I was lucky enough to meet Zhao Dongting.Otherwise, with their scraps of money, I'm afraid they will have to go back in despair in the end.

In the cargo hold, the temperature seemed to drop a little bit suddenly.

Zhao Dongting didn't speak, but the murderous look flashed by at this moment.

He happened to know this nobleman, Zhang Guangyao, who was very good at maneuvering the wind.It turned out that behind the back of Zhiqu, he was secretly doing such a thing.

(End of this chapter)